From 2d7f940f11f14cf38f0d374ffd74aeb81a68f143 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Willi Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 08:52:00 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] pki: Add a note about constructing RFC 3779 compliant certificates to manpage --- src/pki/man/pki---issue.1.in | 3 +++ src/pki/man/pki---self.1.in | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/pki/man/pki---issue.1.in b/src/pki/man/pki---issue.1.in index 3f9382e..d1fa347 100644 --- a/src/pki/man/pki---issue.1.in +++ b/src/pki/man/pki---issue.1.in @@ -153,6 +153,9 @@ Set path length constraint. RFC 3779 address block to include in certificate. \fIblock\fR is either a CIDR subnet (such as \fI10.0.0.0/8\fR) or an arbitrary address range (\fI192.168.1.7-192.168.1.13\fR). Can be repeated to include multiple blocks. +Please note that the supplied blocks are included in the certificate as is, +so for standards compliance, multiple blocks must be supplied in correct +order and adjacent blocks must be combined. Refer to RFC 3779 for details. .TP .BI "\-n, \-\-nc-permitted " name Add permitted NameConstraint extension to certificate. For DNS or email diff --git a/src/pki/man/pki---self.1.in b/src/pki/man/pki---self.1.in index ec38e6d..4384fa7 100644 --- a/src/pki/man/pki---self.1.in +++ b/src/pki/man/pki---self.1.in @@ -132,6 +132,9 @@ Set path length constraint. RFC 3779 address block to include in certificate. \fIblock\fR is either a CIDR subnet (such as \fI10.0.0.0/8\fR) or an arbitrary address range (\fI192.168.1.7-192.168.1.13\fR). Can be repeated to include multiple blocks. +Please note that the supplied blocks are included in the certificate as is, +so for standards compliance, multiple blocks must be supplied in correct +order and adjacent blocks must be combined. Refer to RFC 3779 for details. .TP .BI "\-n, \-\-nc-permitted " name Add permitted NameConstraint extension to certificate. For DNS or email -- 2.7.4